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In Reply to: I believe ZS KEKL is correct this time. If the "Dual Discs" are mixed in with the CDs at the chain stores.... posted by Teresa on June 17, 2004 at 23:35:44:
Since DVD-A is not surviving very well on its own merits, it now has to share a common carrier with regular CD and some video content. What's worse is now it appears that 2 channel DVD-A support has to be dropped in order to make this happen. DVD-A (Hi-Rez) will be pushed to the side by average consumers in favor of playing the Redbook layer in their cars or the Dolby Digital playback when watching the video content at home. Since DVD players are typically used in conjunction with TV sets, what's the purpose of just playing the DVD-A portion with no video? None. Of course the pro-DVD-A marketing camp will say that DVD-A is a success because of the units sold but we know that most (not all) consumer will probably never play the DVD-A portion either because they don't care about it or because their DVD player doesn't support it.SACD has similar marketing challenges but not to the same extent. Since it is pretty much just a music format, SACD isn't trying to be all things to all people while incorporating compromises that DualDisc is forcing...
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24/192 stereo track and 24/96 surround track with additional bonus content and a dolby digital track.It simply fits on a single layer.
you wrote: "SACD has similar marketing challenges but not to the same extent. Since it is pretty much just a music format, SACD isn't trying to be all things to all people".So wht to include a CD layer in hybrid sacds?
Dvd-audio: the name itself reminds it was born in conjunction with dvd-video, with multimedial perspective: a much more modern and flexible approach than the conservativeness of sacd. You can put inside it little either a lot of musical or visual content, with different sample ratios, etc. Not a religion, just a practical tool.
> > . . . or the Dolby Digital playback when watching the video content at home . . . . . what's the purpose of just playing the DVD-A portion with no video? < <DualDisc will be used to release whole music albums. Moreover, you should know that only a few songs of a typical new album release actually get a corresponding video (i.e. the chart-single/title track -- usually created at substantial time and cost.)
Furthermore, to do what you suggest, would mean that each record company would have to film (and lip sync etc.) about ten song videos (i.e. one for each song on the album), even before an album is released! Needless to say, this would create an impossible workload for all concerned.
(However, a concert video or singles DVD compilation would indeed be more suited to a DVD-Video release with Dolby and/or DTS surround audio.)
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